12 years of delivering outstandingly
superior results for a Select Elite Set of Clients

Advisor & Program Manager

Remote execution from the USA for Clients in
the GCC

Sr. Director and Practice Lead for the
Banking Technology Practice & the Business Advisory Services
Practice

SISCOM

Projects Director

Temenos

Regional Director of Strategy and Marketing

Honeywell

Business, Strategy & IT Advisor

Middle East & GCC

KPMG

Practice Lead of Risk & Management Advisory
Services

IBM/GBM (GBM is the arm of IBM in the
Persian Gulf)

Professional and Business Consulting Service
Practice Lead.

Spherion

Sr. Director - Strategy, Business
Consulting, Business Development & EAI

International Turnkey Systems

Head of Financial Services & Principle
Consultant

Path Solutions

Head of Consulting, Service Delivery & the
PMO

Hilti

Technical Marketing Advisor

Some of the Projects I executed as an
Independent Advisor

Chief Executive
Officer  for a Financial Solution Provider. As the CEO
of I worked to implement my vision which is to be the leading provider of
strategy, performance enhancement, business consulting, financial, technological and Advisory services
for Brokerage, Trading, Asset management and Portfolio Management
organizations in the region through the latest cutting edge
technology

During my enure as the CEO  I
conducted a gap analysis, hired an elite team of very skilled talent in
Service Delivery, Architecture, SQM, Client Services and sent the
original staff to extensive training, put in
place policies, procedures and best practices. Moreover, I secured
substantial new deals for the firm, oversaw their implementation and
managed to close the whole
annual revenue target just in 3 months.

Prior Assignment

Chief Strategy Officer for a
conglomerate of Financial Service firms.

Some of the Other Projects:

Business Development,
Marketing and Program Management to develop IBM / GBM Financial Services

Acted as financial
advisor for several high net worth individuals in the GCC

Established and Setup
organizations in Financial services, manufacturing, telecom and healthcare

Acted as EVP of Strategy
and BPR for a large manufacturing organization in KSA

Collaborated with other
high end consultant on several IT & Investment projects in the USA, the UK
and the GCC.

Setup the marketing and
business advisory services for a consulting firm in the GCC

Achievements

Over 25 years of
business experience. My professional life started in Kuwait when I was
in 9th grade and my father made me work summers in his enterrprise
rotating me through all business units so that I would get a head start
on understanding business operations from all angles before going to
University.

Solid and proven
background in Business, Strategy, IT and Investment Consulting.

Designed, oversaw the
full SDLC, implementation and product managment of the world's first Islamic financial solution
encompassing Banking, Lending, Investment, Trading and a set of tools
allowing the end user to set up various financial vehicles as
deemed necessary by their business model.

Established and grew
the Financial Services Advisory
Business Unit for the regions largest Banking solution provider.

Turned around a
fortune 500 firm after the .com crash.
I restructured the company from a purely staaffing firm to a high
end advisory and business solution provider in the USA achieving 4
promotions in 2 years.

Significantly
increased the efficiency, top & bottom line for IBM/GBM in the GCC.

Managed Projects and
Initiatives in the hundreds of million Dollars even crossing the USD$
billion dollar mark with complete stakeholder satisfaction and an
exemplary client references.

Acted as the
investment banker & advisor for several high net worth clients in the
GCC.

An excellent and
proven track record as an independent advisor.

Background

A business leader &
innovator with experience in several industries across the Middle East
to the USA. My international and varied experienced coupled with my
understanding of working in multi-cultural environments enables me to
provide the highest level of innovation, proven methods, experience and
the necessary localization that will make the experience and services
provided effective in the operational environment.

USA Educated and
Globally experienced.

Through extensive,
proven and hands on experience achieved the status of being an effective
conduit for the implementation of global best practices in the Middle
East.

Extremley connected in
Middle East, the GCC, Europe and the USA.

Substantial experience
in the USA & Middle East with prestigious consulting firms

Substantial experience
in Finance  Asset Management, Investment Banking, Portfolio Management,
Trading & much more gained as an active partner in a family owned investment firm in the
USA and the Middle East.

Substantial achievements as a
Senior Executive in several Fortune 500 firms.

Hands on and in-depth
Experience in

Effectively
enabling global best practices regionally by adapting them to
the regions customs, business and protocols. Thiis enables me
to implement best global best practices customized for local
markets.

Business and IT Strategy
formulation and execution

Business
Process Analysis, Management and Improvement.

Project/Program/Portfolio Management

Risk &
Business Advisory Services

Effective
mediation

Thought
leadership workshops

Streamlining
an re-enginering business process to enable lean and very
efffective organizaational models.

Enterprise
Risk Management

Quality
Management
- Business & IT

Business
Continuity and Disaster Recoveriy Planning along with
implementing both models since 1993.

Enterprise
Application Integration
& Architecture

e-business and
e-commerce

Information
Risk Management

Business
Intelligence

Technology, Skills,
Experience and in-depth know-how

Extensive know-how and experience with:

IT infrastructure, Software
Development, Security and Business Processes

Prince II

High degree of experience with Agile, RAD and Extreme Programming.

Expert in the Rational Unified Process (RUP)

Microsoft. Net - Implemented
the largest .Net project in the USA

IBM, MSFT, Oracle, SAP, Open
Source, Legacy and many other technology solutions

Successfully managed project across
three continents ranging in value up to the Billions of USD$ budgets
delivering excellence, before deadlines and under budget all documented in a
plethora of client references.